Why is pornographic material still in school libraries?
Halton District School Board trustees think they don't need to explain themselves
On June 21, 2022, Pierre Barnes sent an email to the trustees of the Halton District School Board (HDSB) in Ontario. The email expressed concern he has with age-inappropriate material made available to students in school libraries. Books, in some cases, that can be classified as nothing other than pornography, in other cases, that feature the ideological terminology and themes associated with the radical gender ideology being deployed in schools across the country.
It’s not sex education. It’s not inclusive. It is ideological indoctrination and perversion, which, when it comes to radical gender ideology, is the same thing. Queer theory is not progress. Most things, in general, do not need to be queered. On the contrary, radical gender ideologues make the tenets of queer theory a practical guide by which they live their life, constantly expressing their gender identity (as if it were the most important thing in the world), and forever engaged in the queering of everything. The whole enterprise looks much more like obsession, perversion, narcissism and mental illness, than it does anything related to inclusion or social justice.
It would be one thing if it were just adults engaging in the praxis of queer theory, obsessing narcissistically about their gender fluidity, and surgically altering their bodies by removing parts and reconstructing others, but these ideas and practices are not just being taught, discussed, considered and practiced by adults, children are caught in the crosshairs, and adult advocates of radical gender ideology have deliberately put them there.
This is a phenomenon happening all over Canada. That books in school libraries are full of age-inappropriate, pornographic, ideological anti-science nonsense, and are available to young children, should cause outrage from coast-to-coast. However, that these books exist, were made for children, are in school libraries, include inappropriate, incorrect and disgusting information, and are a direct outcome of radical gender ideology, is not common knowledge.
Over and over again, the issues I cover are ignored by mainstream media, and driven by independent researchers. Because of this, the importance of independent journalism in Canada cannot be understated. People who have seen Pierre’s research into inappropriate books in school libraries, and other issues related to radical gender ideology in schools, are almost always shocked and outraged. The lack of media coverage and analysis of these issues explains why these woke school boards are getting away with indoctrinating children and exposing them to pornographic and depraved ideas and images.
It should not be surprising that the HDSB is the same board defending a trans teacher's right to wear enormous prosthetic breasts with protruding nipples in tight fitting t-shirts, during shop class. I wish I could single this school board out and ask, what is wrong with these idiots? But this board is just like all of the other boards, irredeemably woke.
As was detailed in the Woke Watch Canada piece mentioned at the top of this article, Pierre emailed trustees of the HDSB concerning the inappropriate books on June 21st, and received a reply the same day. It appears as though trustee Amy Collard accidentally hit the reply all button. Her response email seems only to have been intended for someone named “Gord.”
Subject: Re: Halton School District Ontario - Books Concerns
Gord
I am concerned. This individual has included links to publications and videos which may actually contain illegal content.
I'm not sure how to investigate the content of the email safely. Would you please advise us whether or not this person ought to be reported to police? Is there some action we should take?
Sincerely,
Amy Collard (she/her)
Halton District School Board Trustee
Burlington, Ward 5
The above email response, which was never intended for Pierre, was the only time Pierre has heard from this school board. On July 3rd, 2022, Pierre followed up with this:
Dear Amy,
I have CC the Halton Chief of Police to this email. Chief Tanner is the longest active serving Chief of Police in Canada, In January 2012, he was appointed by the Governor General of Canada as an Officer of the Order of Merit of the Police Forces.
I really hope he will take the time to go through this email and the emails attached and reply to your concerns regarding the illegal contents of the books made available to children at the Halton School District.
In between, I would advise the School Board to immediately remove those books from the library. For more information about those books, please see the emails attached.
Pierre received no response to this email. Then on December 6, 2022 he emailed them again. This time Pierre goes into details of the definitions of non-contact sexual abuse and of the recent history of sexual abuse occurring in Canadian schools. Many parents feel that the inclusion of age-inappropriate sexual material is not just disgusting and indecent, but that it is contributing to an environment friendly to child groomers and pedophiles. Not all teachers who use these materials are child groomers, some are just awful teachers. However, the amount of sexual abuse that has occurred in Canadian schools is staggering.
If we were serious about protecting kids from grooming and sexual predation, we would start by removing these books from school libraries, and then set up some clear boundaries as to what is and is not acceptable to teach prepubescent children. Below is Pierre’s Dec 6th email:
Dear Respected Trustees and Police Officers of Halton.
I am writing to you in the capacity of a parent of 4 school-aged children from British Columbia. Ever since I came to learn about some of the books in my kids' school libraries and what is being taught to minors, I decided to research all School Districts in the province, including the Halton School District.
To date, I have connected with and befriended numerous parents and caregivers who share my concerns about some of the material being presented to children in the name of diversity and inclusivity. Some of the aforementioned connections are actually parents of students from Halton who reached out to me after my online interview with a national news media outlet.
In the spirit of interfaith and intercultural diversity, many people who have solicited my support are Christians, Muslims, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jews, etc. They all share one thing in common with me, namely, a serious concern about pornographic materials being promoted in our public school system.
I understand that it is challenging to talk about this because of the intense institutional pressure placed upon you to accept all academic materials. However, intervening effectively in the lives of these children is not the sole responsibility of any single agency or institution, but rather it is a shared community concern, and parents have a fundamental right to raise their children as they see fit. Schools should facilitate communication and involvement with parents and the community.
Each day, child abuse threatens the safety and well-being of our children across Canada. According to the Canadian Centre for Child Protection report on Child Sexual Abuse by K-12 School Personnel in Canada, 67% of offenders worked in Public Schools, 26% in Catholic/Christian Schools, and 7% in Private Schools.
Child Sexual Abuse by K-12 School Personnel in Canada 1997-2017:
Child Sexual Abuse and Victimization by K-12 School Personnel in Canada 2017-2021:
https://www.protectchildren.ca/en/resources-research/school-report/
Child sexual abuse is an epidemic that impacts far too many families and communities. Together parents, teachers, and community members can make a difference, which is why it is imperative that we make it safe to discuss this topic openly and frankly.
According to the Canadian Center for Child Protection, non-contact sexual abuse is as follows:
• Encouraging a child to masturbate or watch others masturbate
• Secretly recording or observing a child in a private situation for a sexual purpose (voyeurism)
• Exposing a child to individuals engaging in sexually explicit acts (including exposure to adult pornography)
• Exposing a child to child sexual abuse material
• "Flashing" or exposing genitals to a child
• Communicating over technology to make it easier to commit a specific sexual offense against a child (luring a child)
• Taking a picture or recording a video of a child's sexual organs for a sexual purpose
Operated by the Canadian Centre for Child Protection, ProtectKidsOnline.ca state that exposure to sexually explicit material may:
• Prematurely sexualize a child.
• Incite a child to experiment with sexually explicit behaviour to make sense of it.
• Lead a child to normalize and become desensitized to high risk behaviour.
• Shape a child's expectations in relationships.
• Shape a child's expectations of physical appearances and certain sexual acts.
• Blur boundaries and increase a child's risk of victimization.
• Increase a child's health risks (i.e. sexually transmitted infections, sexual exploitation, etc.).
• Increase a child's risk of problematic sexual behaviour against other children in an effort to experiment.
• Interfere with a child's healthy sexual development.
It also states the following:
• Pornography is not reality. It creates confusing expectations, attitudes and beliefs about what to expect in a healthy sexual interaction.
• Pornography makes sexual violence seem okay, that being aggressive will get you what you want and that "no" means "yes."
• Pornography reinforces gender stereotypes such as guys call all the shots and girls are meant to be used for a sexual purpose.
• It portrays people as objects; a thing to be used and not as a person.
Pornography is often thought of as pictures or videos of nudity or sexual acts. But depicting those sexual acts in animated content and literature is also pornography. That happens whether it is a graphic video or an explicit passage in a book.
Teachers and Trustees have a moral and legal obligation to protect children in their care. You might be the only adult in that child's life who oversees them enough even to notice, let alone report, the abuse or neglect. This is a given responsibility that is not to be taken lightly.
Many of you may be parents yourself; therefore, we reach out to you as parents to other parents who may share some of our concerns about sexually explicit material shown to children under your care.
Parents who contacted me would appreciate an opportunity to discuss the above mentioned issues privately or publicly with trustees who may share the same concerns. Please reply to this email or contact me directly by phone so we can organize a meeting. We will follow up with you next week if we still await a reply.
Not surprisingly, there has been no response to this email. This is why I am asking Woke Watch Canada readers to share this article widely, to also share Pierre Barns’ research, and to write your own letters to Canadian school boards expressing your outrage, demanding answers, and demanding that sexually explicit age inappropriate material be removed from school libraries.
I’ll leave it at that for today, but I’ll be keeping a close eye on the Halton District School Board.
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It seems they have hidden this garbage from parents for years. All of this insanity began when the Trudeau government amended the Human Rights Act to include gender expression. That is what got under Jordan Peterson's skin, because he sensed it would open the floodgates to this kind of assault on our children. Your are so right about the media's complicency in this. A good example is that the legacy media barely covered the obscene fetished teacher at the Halton Board. That should have been on every newscast and on the front page of every newspaper until the board was forced to respond and do the right thing and fire the teacher for his bad behaviour. The reason most parents don't know what is going on is that their kids don't talk about it, just like they don't talk about most things they are taught at school. Even if they do, it would seem parents can do little about it. An Ottawa parent took her case to the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal when her six year old came home and told her mother her teachers said their wasn't such a thing as boys and girls. The Tribunal dismissed her case saying her child hadn't been 'harmed' and hid behind both the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Ontario Human Rights code, which also recognized gender expression nonsense, thanks to Liberal Premier Dalton McGinty and no thanks to Premier Doug Ford who has never thought to amend to stop this insanity. More than a writing campaign, and an army ofparents everywhere need to start appearing at school boards and demand change before this will stop. They have started this is in the states and progress is happening , we need to do the same in Canada. Children need protection from this very blatant indoctrination. Parents must mobilize as true activists for it to happen.
As a kid who was molested by a family member for years, and raped at 13, my heart breaks for the children of this and all generations who are and will be negatively impacted by this woke gender BS. It took me decades and a ton of determination to heal from the sexual abuse I experienced as a child. Teaching this garbage to children is beyond grooming. It is, in my opinion, abuse in and of itself.
Thank you, James, for having the courage to tell the truth about this nonsense!